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Rick Scott: “You got to reduce every tax and fee you can.”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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Does Florida Have an Affordability Problem? We Asked Sen. Rick Scott | WSJ

Published | Video Starts at 04:13

How do you go after companies like Embraer to expand or Northrop Grumman or Lockheed Martin? You got to recruit companies, you got to talk to them. You got to reduce every tax and fee you can. You can't have regulation that doesn't make sense and you can't just, it's not just the state level, it's at the local level and at the local level and the federal government's part of it. (04:13–04:16)

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Asserts that reducing taxes and fees is necessary for economic growth in Florida.

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